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SAN FRANCISCO—A negative confirmatory prostate biopsy is associated with a significantly lower rate of progression to treatment among prostate cancer (PCa) patients on active surveillance (AS), investigators reported at the 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
In a retrospective study, Keyan Salari, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues identified 974 men enrolled in AS from 1997 to 2014 who had a minimum follow-up of 6 months. Of these, 101 had a negative confirmatory biopsy and 169 had a positive confirmatory biopsy. The investigators considered biopsy results containing only benign prostatic tissue, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), or atypical small acinar proliferation (ASAP) to be negative.
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The patients in the negative and positive biopsy groups had a median age of 63 and 65 years, respectively.
On multivariate analysis, a negative versus a positive confirmatory biopsy was associated with a 65% decreased risk of progressing to treatment. Confirmatory biopsy status not associated with risk of adverse pathologic features at the time of radical prostatectomy and metastasis-free, disease-specific, or overall survival, according to the investigators.
“A negative confirmatory biopsy is associated with a significantly lower rate of progression to definitive treatment,” the authors concluded in their poster. “Confirmatory biopsy status may serve as a useful tool for patient counseling and for determining the frequency of subsequent biopsies for men on AS.”
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Reference
Salari K, Zlatev DV, Kuppermann D, et al. The prognostic impact of a negative confirmatory biopsy in men on active surveillance for prostate cancer. Data presented at the 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, held in San Francisco Feb. 8–10. Abstract 76.
